It is an insightful and engaging look at the work of Chinese artist Fang Lijun, one of the most prominent members of the Cynical Realist movement. Fang Lijun (b. 1963) is the artist most closely associated with the painting movement dubbed "Cynical Realism," that emerged in China in the 1990s. Cynical Realist painters reacted to the recent history and political present of their country - from the 1911 revolution to the Maoist revolution to the recent capitalist boom - with a barely suppressed irony and often brutal humour, depicting the country in a state of moral bankruptcy and spiritual atrophy. In the case of Fang Lijun, this stance produced wildly colourful canvases populated with demented faces grinning to oppressive excess against cheerful blue skies. Lijun's work has met with great acclaim outside of China, having been exhibited at The Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Pompidou in Paris. With more than 200 color reproductions, this volume offers the most substantial overview of his paintings to date. 这是对中国艺术家方力钧的作品的一种深刻而引人入胜的观察,方力钧是愤世嫉俗现实主义运动最杰出的成员之一。方力军(生于1963年)是与“愤世嫉俗现实主义”绘画运动联系最为密切的艺术家,“这在20世纪90年代出现在中国。愤世嫉俗的现实主义画家对他们国家最近的历史和政治现状作出反应——从辛亥革命到毛主义革命,再到最近的资本主义繁荣——用几乎不受抑制的讽刺和通常残酷的幽默,描绘了这个国家处于道德破产和精神萎缩的状态。在方力军的例子中,这一立场产生了色彩斑斓的画布,充斥着疯狂的面孔,在欢快的蓝天下咧嘴笑着。李军的作品在中国以外获得了极大的赞誉,曾在纽约现代艺术博物馆和巴黎蓬皮杜博物馆展出。有超过200个彩色复制品,这卷提供了最实质性的概述,他的画迄今为止。
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